1-15 Grange Crescent (Terrace) With Steps And Handrails

A terrace of 15 houses, now primarily offices, located at 1-15 Grange Crescent, Sunderland, built between 1850 and 1855, with number 15 completed slightly later. The terrace is constructed of garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings, featuring a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. Stone steps and cast-iron handrails are present throughout. The terrace follows a convex crescent shape.

The houses are two storeys high with a basement, and each has three windows. Number 1 has a set-back right wing containing an entrance porch. Six wide stone steps lead to six-panel doors, a Sunderland style, that fold back to create panelled reveals for inner doors. These doors are set within pilaster-and-entablature surrounds, located to the right of numbers 2-14, centrally at number 15, and within the set-back porch of number 1. Most inner doors are half-glazed with overlights. All windows are four-pane sashes with architraves and bracketed sills. Number 15, on the left, is wider and has ground floor canted bay windows with fruit and flower carvings on brackets to the cornices. The first floor features a band below tripartite windows, and the central window has been altered and contains stained glass. Number 1 has a narrow Venetian window on the first floor, flanked by narrower blocked windows, and sun-blind casings to the ground floor windows. The roof has transverse-ridge corniced chimneys, and includes some hipped dormers; an elliptical-headed scroll-sided dormer is present at number 14. Prominent inserted roof lights are visible at number 13, while altered dormers are located at numbers 9, 10, and 12. The right return of number 1 features angle pilasters.